Firefighters tackling a blaze last night in Firminy, central France, after clashes between police and youths for the third consecutive night. Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty ImagesFrom Foreign Policy Blog:
Last November, Sudhir Venkatesh over at the Freakonomics blog predicted that France was due for more youth riots. Somebody give him a prize:
French riot police firing teargas and plastic bullets have struggled to contain three nights of rioting and arson by youths on suburban estates in the Loire, amid protests over the death of a 21-year-old in police custody.
High-rises in Firminy, a small town bordering countryside on the outskirts of Saint-Étienne, saw running battles between police and youths in the early hours of this morning after Mohamed Benmouna, a local supermarket cashier, was taken from his police cell in a coma and died in hospital.
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My Comment: This is going to get very messy. France has hit hard against illegal immigration and migrants in the country .... and as the economic crisis continues, the situation for these migrants and their children is going from bad to worse.
This has all the markings of a very hot summer.
1 comment:
these youths will continue to riot until things(racism) get settled. It is no different than when blacks rioted in the sixties and changed America. The French will have to realize their country is no longer only for the French
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